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63R3477 is the VIN, mine is 63R1025. I'll have no idea about the second one. Some Avanti II numbers have a Q in them, my 71 is RQB-1703
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I just installed a passenger door striker from a Mercedes 220 sl. It works.
Did it have 4 holes instead of 3?
Don't know the 220 SL, There were the 230/280SL's from the 60's and a 220D sedan.
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If you end up near 95 in Maine, let me know and perhaps you can stop in for a sip or a bite.
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Brad,
I moved to Maine from the San Francisco area in 2000. Toolie and I enjoy the farm not to far north west of Kennebunk. Lots in life has changed. Where in NH?
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Did the 71 Avanti's have ignition shielding? I thought it was to keep down RF emmissions from the ignition as the fiberglass would not do so, so Vette's and Avanti both had it. The 71 I got has none. If it should, it must have been different that the 63/64 parts.
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never noticed the water pump but my blower is definately balance, else someone with a drill got very upset or very bored!
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All my 71's gauge's are in terrible shape. Would love a spedo and tach from a later year that said Avanti instead of SW, and any others in better condition, else may try to fund a set of SW HD gauge's
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Brad,
Mine has two Paxton guages mounted below the radio, mechanical fuel pressure and supercharger pressure. I asked Vince why that pairing and was advised that theblower boost is piped to the fuel pump to increase the fuel pressure as the supercharger pressure increases. If the supercharger pressure would ever climb to equal the fuel pressure the mixture would lean out either causing a stall, or worse an over-lean condition which could cause catastrophic piston/valve failure.
As I recall all of the front suspension pieces were part of the Police/Taxi HD suspension package, and all were stocked at the depot's. I used to go over to the one in Burlingame, CA from time to time. I knew my uppers were HD, did not know about the rest of it.
Mine did not have the rear axle upgrade. With the exception of the traction bar mounts, was the F150 axle the same as the R3's? I'd love to change mine. It has already broken once, and I have had several others break on Hawks and would love to change it out. Enough failures that I immediately recognized a funny "Creak" and immediately stopped and called a tow truck. Operator objucted to towing a car with no visable sign of a problem but he finnaly towed it to my home. I put a jack stand under the axle as he lowered the car and released the cradle the left rear wheel and drum fell off!
Side note, saw someone that painted his engine a funny shade of green to match his new transmission, a 3 speed o/d he purchased from the Milton Motors. He was very proud of his restoration. It was green because the Miltons got a bunch of rusty looking ones from Burlingame and my brother and I took them home and had California Color in San Leandro mix us up a bunch of green spray cans to make them "look new" again.
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Bob,
"These are the G6 seats going into my 74." G6? I have been thinking of picking up some Corvette C5 seats like I had in my 92 Vette and putting them into my 71.
Who else had changed seats, don't want to exercise my brain too much re-engineering the car, just want something enjoyable to sit in.
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I find Mercedes strikers on e-bay all the time and have owned 5 Benzes since the early 80's, went to my local independant shop, but all the strikers I have seen have 4 holes instead of the three, and the angle of the receiver is different. Any idea which year/body had ones that would work?
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63R-1025 has the heavy duty upper control arm but it is mounted in the normal position. The car was used to promote acceleration, not top speed so probably no need to mess with it. It did have one other modification, the exhaust had a pipe welded in between the left and right side forward of the frame cross member.
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Back to MFG's question,
Paxton did make a "Competition" blower. The one in 63R-1025 was painted black instead of orange. Never thought much about it, lots of stuff in that car was not typical. The impeller exploded one day, thankfully none of the shrapnel made it to the cylinders. I called Paxton to get a rebuild price and shipped it to them. They called back and advised my quote was no good because I had a "competition" blower. If I wanted it repaired it would cost more. That said, there were multiple pulley options, bigger crank or smaller blower that could change the output, and there was a different blower also available.
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Thanks for the tips, missed the auction
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My error, I was thinking of 115/145 avgas, not 160. It was used in many of the supercharged aircraft during WW II
The dual rating is the lean/rich mixture rating.
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It would be a pleasure to meet you.
Give me a date and I'll get it on my calendar.
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Regarding engines, remember that Studebaker was making aircraft engines during WWII (as did Packard). Supercharging and 160 octane fuel was pretty common. When Studebaker developed their V8 there was a presumption that very high octane fuel would be available so high combustion chamber pressures could be used to obtain horse power. GM converted gasoline engines to diesel with poor results. I would expect that a 289 diesel would likely be a good engine; they certainly have demonstrated the ability to absorb high combustion chamber pressures.
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A couple of hours work and the car could be driven, however, we have body work to do after an "off roading incident" many years ago.
My son arrives Tuesday and we will begin the work on the body, however no way to get it done in time for St Louis, however; hopefully in time for Warwick.
Recently Acquired RQB-1703's chassis will be next to 1025 and I'll be starting work on it. It is being built for fun so it will not take as long to get going.
Good chance a color change made 20 years ago will be reversed and it will be restored to original colors.
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Doug and Carolyn Crall have a white 63 with a black vinyl roof. Carolyn used to be President of SDC, and Doug was also very active, though not so much any more. They have a 63, 64, convertible and a 64 GT. They also have a correct "B" R3 uninstalled on a stand. Good chance hers is pictured somewhere. Can get contact info if you want it.
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We have only had the pan off of 63R-1025 once and it was many years ago, however; it was apparant that a lot of work had been done to the rods and crank. At the other end of the chamber there was also a tremendous amount of work done to the heads and the valve retainers are very light weight and obviously hand made items as each is slightly different that the others.
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I got the build sheet for 1024 by mistake and reordered 63R-1025. The two cars looked like identical Turquois / Turquois R2 Power Shift cars.
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A long conversation the I had with Andy Granetelli started when he called me regarding a message that I had left for Vince. Vince and I had talked the week prior (a year or so before Andy died) and there was a question that I had for him but could not remember it at the time. Days later I rememberd that I wanted to ask about scratch marks on the steering column that looked like they may have been created by an aftermarket tach so I sent an e-mail with the question. I was suprised when Andy called me back instead of Vince, and after considerable talk verifying what car I owned he said that the new instruments were not available when my car was being used for racing and road test reports so they had strapped an aftermarket tach to the steering column since the car only had the 140 MPH spedo and 6,000 rpm tach. He also said that the carburator pressure chamber had just arrived in time for the Hot Rod Magazine road test and photo shoot.
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The supplement that came with an R3 listed 7,000 rpm as maximum recommended RPM
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The early hoods had a stiffener across the middle. A section of mine was cut away to get the blower to pressure box to clear. By the time production R3's were made that stiffener had been eliminated. Mine had the hood pad but I removed it in the 70's as the blower hose and pressue chamber tore it up.
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Sorry,
I didn't notice the second page of comments ad some of the R3 changes were noted there.
My Avanti has lower motor mounts but it may be the only one. It has the stock lower pulley and lowering the engine created an interference fit with the steering center point. It would have to have the normal motor mounts to install a larger crank pulley and I belive that a larger one was available.
'See Through' Avanti!
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Rear view mirrors you see through twice, all of the light bulb covers, tail, head, front turn, backup, can be seen through, Got to be getting close to 21